Sunday, September 25, 2022
The set (by Tim Hatley) is absolutely beautiful in the much anticipated, new original play The Snail House from celebrated theatre director Richard Eyre, giving a sense of occasion and opule…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, September 22, 2022
When in 1964 Samuel Beckett (Stephen Tompkinson) and Harold Pinter (Andrew Lancel) play in the same cricket match in the Cotswolds, you might expect something out of the ordinary. Filmed liv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Finn (Elijah Ferreira) and Jass (Jade Johnson), who identify as queer, are the last two people left alive by circumstance after a suffocating fog in the charming one-act musical Help! We Are…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, September 9, 2022
There’s a fabulous new musical in town at the Playground Theatre. Several years in the making, Rehab The Musical is written and composed by Grant Black (whose dad Don was in the house on p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, September 1, 2022
Both exhilarating and frustrating, Muses brings something new and innovative to the theatre space. It’s often just beautiful, and sometimes bizarre. I’m interested to see what Puro Caos …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, August 29, 2022
An epic musical available on-demand from The Space, The Brontës is the latest depiction of the famed Yorkshire family of writers in the 19th century.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, August 27, 2022
In a world heavily populated with jukebox shows The Osmonds is more Jersey Boys or Sunny Afternoon than Tina or The Cher Show. A fine evening’s entertainment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 24, 2022
Dominique Izabella Little’s 40-minute show Sold By Mama comes to the Camden Fringe, playing at the Hen & Chickens Theatre. Prior to acting, Little worked as a docu-fiction filmmaker, a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, August 22, 2022
Just An Ordinary Lawyer is one of two shows which Tayo Aluko and Friends have available both live and online on-demand at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, and this one focuses on Nigerian Tun…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
Jo Emery Productions brings this show to the digital strand of Camden Fringe. Boiling Frog is a series of interconnecting monologues across 90 minutes.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, August 14, 2022
A Zoom performance by Beverley Bishop, directed by Peter Beck, Finding Magic includes an audience recorded at the time of the livestream, to give a sense of interactivity.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, August 9, 2022
Tamás Milhofer brings his show The Late Harness Rebellion to the digital strand of the Edinburgh Fringe with the collaboration of Unmuted Participants.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 3, 2022
Written by Jenny Lyn Bader and narrated by Kathleen Chalfant, Tree Confessions is a 34-minute audio show which most recently streamed as part of the Greater Manchester Fringe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, July 31, 2022
New play The Fall, by Drew Hewitt, forms part of the triple bill of readings staged at the Riverside Studios and now available via on-demand streaming.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, July 24, 2022
Kill The Cat’s live-stream of Keep The Lights On comes to YouTube on-demand in a 40-minute work in progress piece as part of Puncture the Screen which is a matrix based game to “turn off…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, July 17, 2022
In advance of its appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe, this film version of Retribution Day, described to me by its creators as “a marmite piece” is a taut but puzzling tale of revenge.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, July 7, 2022
A tight 80-minute three-hander (two other minor characters appear briefly), Original Theatre’s The End of the Night is not an easy watch but it is quite brilliant, and lends itself perfect…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, July 2, 2022
Based on the iconic 1952 musical film featuring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor, Singin’ in the Rain has both a great pedigree and a lot to live up to. Now touring after…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, June 30, 2022
Streaming in two versions, a concept album at two hours available for free, and a four hour one for purchase, Kisses on a Postcard is an episodic piece which can be enjoyed in short bursts b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, June 7, 2022
In The Collab writer Lauren Morley has created a piece totally on the pulse of the young people who live by their likes and engagements. Ella seeks that million followers and the validation …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, May 31, 2022
Practice of Zen considers the traditions, practicality, sensuality and strength of swordplay and resilience. Performed in Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles, this piece by Theatre …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, May 27, 2022
Diana Varco brings her own experiences to this one-woman show, now streaming at the Brighton Fringe. The topics of abuse and sexual assault may not be an obvious choice for comedy, but Varco…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, May 20, 2022
We’re in Gran Canaria, where the paint is peeling on the chalets over at Los Hombres. Chatty guide Thabian (Kane Verrall) tells us over the tannoy we’re there to have a good time. This i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, May 9, 2022
Mark Ravenhill’s production of La Boheme is pared down to 90 minutes and four on-stage characters, with a piano taking the place of an orchestra. This makes it intimate and immediate.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, April 28, 2022
Sue Glover’s play is set on Hirta, the largest island on St Kilda, and takes inspiration from the story of Rachel Erskine, Lady Grange, in the eighteenth century.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, April 25, 2022
Composed by Frank Wildhorn with lyrics by Don Black, the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s road to infamy is perhaps best known from Arthur Penn’s classic 1967 film.
Compo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, April 22, 2022
Even a minor Sondheim has something to recommend it, and ticking this one off leaves just two of his shows left for me to see live.
My knowledge of Anyone Can Whistle was confined to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 20, 2022
Dirty Hearts, a new play by Paul Murphy, looks at relationships, friendships, ethics, secrets and morals close to home.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, April 15, 2022
My first visit to this flashy jukebox musical inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was in December 2019, so it was great fun to revisit recently.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, March 27, 2022
Emma Zadow’s new play, Fridge, is a three-hander set in 21st century rural Norfolk as two sisters and a schoolfriend reunite seven years after a catastrophic event.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, March 25, 2022
A father and son meet in a wine cellar. The son is a recovering alcoholic, and his dad (a ghost, who left the son a nice bottle of red wine in his will) doesn’t seem to understand the harm…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM 
